Band of Horses Get Back to the Garage on First Album in Six Years
variety.comJonathan Cohen To say the past five years have turned Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell’s world upside down would be something of an understatement.
The group said farewell to longtime band members Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds and split with Interscope Records after just one album (2016’s “Why Are You OK”), as well as its longtime manager John Silva, while Bridwell himself went through a painful divorce and child custody battle.
On top of everything else, Band of Horses opted to scrap a completely finished album it had recorded with Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle and Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann and go back to the proverbial drawing board, which wound up being Bridwell’s friend Wolfgang Zimmerman’s no-frills garage studio in Charleston, S.C.
The result is “Things Are Great,” out today (March 4) on new label BMG ahead of a summer North American tour supporting the Black Keys.
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